The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-23
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Local and Personal.

Local and Personal.
r. d. Hughes superintendent of the Indiana |
and Ohio divisions of the American Express !
Company, is in the city on official business.
l. d. Baldwin, district passenger agent of the
L., N A. q c., is again so i'll as TO confine him !
ut home His troubles are of a malarious char
acter.
Under the new tariff &c 900 pounds will be the
minimum weight per agricultural imple-
ments Heretofore 20, 900 pounds has been the
minimum.
V. T. Malott general manager of the Union
hallway Company and Belt road, who has been
i'll for several days as TO confine him at home.
was much better yesterday and expects to be out
again in day N two.
The old North western freight pool is to be
known as the Northwestern Bureau of Stats
tics when the interstate law goes into effect, ana
IL Is probable that all other railroad pools will be
continued under the same phase
The executive committee of the Chicago 81
Ohio River Pool yesterday resolved to continue
the association until May l, without the pooling
feature. committee in the meantime will
prepare plan for an organization as Stats
teal bureau.
The giving of passes by one railroad to all the
head officials of the others necessiates In itself
the printing of large numbers of passes, but
this is only a small item of the list 1t is stated
that some of the Eastern roads annually give
out %, 900 free passes.
About hundred members of the Order of
Railway Conductors and delegates to the grand
convention to be held at New Orleans. in May,
held AN interesting meeting in Rock Island yes
terday, for the purpose of considering questions
which will be brought up at that time.
Conductors report passes as showing up still
very literally on their trips each day. Six days
now remain in which they can be used, and
from this fact the conductors draw good deal
of comfort Travel on some of the roads, how
ever, will be light when passes are void.
For the first week in March sixty three roads
1aport gross earnings of So, 303, III, against 3d.
49,, 4S3 for the corresponding week in 1SS6-an
increase of $246. 229. or 8 per cent.-and for the
second week in March twenty roads report an
increase Of $l86, SAT, or over 13l per cent
Lake navigation is expected to open in three
weeks, wnen grain feet fully one-fourth larger
than in service last year will be in the market for
business. AS the trunk-line pool will have no
power to regulate lake rates the coming season,
what rates will be is something that cannot be
foretold.
Maj. H. G. Prout has been appointed editor
of the Railroad Gazette in place of w. Howard
White. resigned. Major Prout is graduate of
the University of Michigan. and WAS for several
years in the service of the KhedIve of Egypt, on
the engineering staff, under the late Gen. Charles
Z. Stone
the Indianapolis, Peru e. Chicago road gives
chem shorter line between indianapolis and
fSandusky than the l., B. & W. The Lake Erie
e Western, via Upton. is 251 miles, the l., B. &
FORMER eighteen miles the shorter route.
1t is rumored that j. r. Hardy, for several
years past general superintendent of the Kansas
City, ST. Joseph & Council Bluffs and Hannibal
& ST. Joseph roads has been requested to re-
sign. The resignation takes effect the lst. He
will be succeeded by j. B. Maxon. division super
intendent of the Burlington at Ottumwa la.
Edward Darlington, of Washington, d. c.,
has been appointed chief engineer of the Wichi-
"a. Cedarvale & Southeastern railway, with
rnoAn OF obi Nv Pnv
was recently engaged upon the location of the
Chicago, Santa Fe g. California railway from
Streator, ILL.,. west towards Fort Madison. Ia.
The LIE Grande signal and electrical inter
locking system in use at the crossing of the Belt
road and the j., M. & |. tracks continues to per
form admirably A number of the managers OF
leading Eastern and Western lines are making
inquiries about the signal and switch, stating
that they would like to introduce il their
lines if it does the work and is reliable at all
times
The Lake Erie e Western DEAL by which il
secures the l., P. & G. road practically shuts
the Wabash out of Indianapolis, as, of course,
the Lake Erie & Western will haul any east
bound business it takes out of Indianapolis over
its road as far practicable AT present the
L. E. & W. turns a large per cent. of its east
bound business over to the Lake Shore road a
Fremont, o.
The east bound shipments of -four, grain and
provisions from Chicago, last week, aggregated
Sc 513 tons, an increase of 1924 tons over the
previous week, and 1865 tons tho cor
responding week of 1886 The percentages wer,
Shore r. Michigan Central, 10 2; Fort Wayne
,273 Panhandle IL s; Baltimore & Ohio, IT. 8
Nckel-plate, s. g. Big Four, 81
The agents of the roads centerng here ar
more than gratifed with the results from tn,
weighing of all platform frelghts and billing then
ont at actual weights. 1t is worth. it is statel
officially. $50 per day to the c., l. & ST. l.. road
ut least since the plan was commenced the in
crease in charges from billing out at aetna
weights has averaged daily that sum. and tn
other roads equally good results are reported.
Commencing with tonight a combination
Pullman built sleeping and char-car will b
hauled locally between Indianapolis and 81
Louis on the fast mail train instead of a Pull
man sleeping car Parties who prefer to wal
for the train west at 11:l5 p. NJ, over the Van
.dalia. will be furnished with sleeping-car accom-
modations in tine through Pullman car run be
tween Cincinnati and ST. Louis, in which fou
sections will be reserved for Indianapolis pa,
sengers
President John Newell, of the Lake Shore
has returned to Cleveland. There man
inquiries concerning the truth of the rumo
that you have resigned said the reporter of tn
Plain Dealer to the general manager us tina
sou said Mr.. Newell This the first l have he ar
of the rumor. The man who manufactured tn
story should have gone a point further, stain
that when the smoke clears away from the Ba
timore & OHIO deal it will be found that tn
Vanderbilts own the great railway with it's cor
nections, and intend to make John Newell pre-
ident"
1t is stated that but once, and that the fir.
day, has the Pennsylvania proper turned tt
fast mail train between New York and Kansa
City over to the Pennsylvania Company at Pitt
burg on time. and the roads west of Pittsbur
obliged to daily make up one to three hour
lost time east of Pttsburg, and as the p, C. 1
St. l.. between Pttsbure and Columbus
crowded with business but little time can
made up until the e.. st. L. e. P. is struck,
Columbus and from that point to St. Lou
some of tie fastest running ever made in TIL
country is done almost daily.
Business men on the line of the indianapolis
Perm & Chicago road are not favorably in
pYaeSed with this road naSsnp undar he tn